What is Maintenance? Maintenance is a law under which a person, who is unable to maintain herself/himself for survival, takes financial help from his Guardian legally. The amount given by Guardian is called Maintenance. Wife can seek maintenance from her Husband, Children from Father, old parents from son or handicapped husband can seek maintenance from …
A Mumbai sessions court recently reversed an interim order passed by a magistrate directing the husband to pay ₹ 10,000 as maintenance to his estranged wife after observing that the wife was substantially making more income than her husband. Additional sessions judge SB Pawar observed that the aim of granting maintenance is to ensure that …
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The Kerala High Court recently observed that the Family Courts are empowered to review maintenance orders as they are responsible for the enforcement of provisions under Chapter IX of the Criminal Procedure Code. The objective of Chapter IX is to provide a reasonable maintenance amount to the neglected or abandoned wives, children and also parents. …
The Karnataka High Court recently quoted the Holy Quran emphasizing that even the Holy book says that it’s the husband’s duty to look after his wife and children mainly if they are disabled. The Court said it while rejecting a petition filed by a Muslim man against a maintenance award that was allowed by a …
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The Karnataka High Court has stated that a wife who was previously employed cannot simply sit idle and expect her husband to provide full maintenance. Justice Rajendra Badamikar rejected a woman’s petition from Anekal town in Bengaluru Urban district, observing that wife earlier employed and presently capable of, is legally obligated to put efforts to …
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Pets fulfill the emotional deficits that arise after relationships break, remarked a Mumbai court recently while rejecting a man’s argument to reduce the maintenance money allowed to pay to his estranged wife, it also included the amount required to maintain her three dogs. A metropolitan magistrate at Bandra made the observation while allowing an interim …
A wife who was employed earlier cannot sit idle and fully rely upon maintenance from her estranged husband but she should make possible efforts in order to bear her expenses (overall livelihood), recently said the Karnataka High Court while rejecting a plea by a woman who challenged a Magistrate Court which was granted a reduction …
While considering the grant of stay of the interim maintenance order passed under Section 125 of CrPC, the High Court of Delhi has observed that a revisional court cannot make a general direction of depositing the whole maintenance amount by ignoring the facts and circumstances pertaining to the case. A vacation bench of Justice Girish …
A Mumbai trial court had denied maintenance to a woman on the ground that she was earning more than her husband was earning. The order was later upheld by the Sessions Court. Relief was denied to her by the court. Appeals were filed by the parties in the session court. The woman had asked for …
